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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1909-04-01, Page 6o00011 OF WILD ANIP1ALS j""°`♦♦♦"`♦"'+"' ____. .a THOSE WHICH BRING THE1 i IJNCLE DICI< • HIGHEST PRICES. aFrni 14- 4. i 0 The Lion Sold From $375 to $503— 4+++++++++#+♦.a...... Or, The Result of Dioloinaey and Tact. +ks+.�dtm4 0. Q 1040+111tCt.101.Of A.i0t.1i.G..:O.101.lOf.>a+0.1/1 sa CHAPTER XXXV. Dick viewed the consternation After subsidence of her laugh, displayed on Ilia sister's faco to the Mrs. Seton -Carr said— accompaniment of a broad grin on "I have said good-bye for overto Ilia owns said— "I s right! Start quarrelling Ivy the tt antrolles. They have left now, even before you aro tied up! Cottage. . �I shall mover see Goodness knows what it will be li.o thecal again— after, when you are sent aced to "I thought—" --1 mean when you aro linked for "I loved him?" she interrupted life. Miserable wretches! You gleefully. "I didn't --I just hated have my sincerest sympathy; all him ---''my "Yet you—" ul"Itittakes two to make a quer- "Pretended I did because I want- vol ed to annoy you! There! I wanted tc annoy you because—I Don't, Prince Charlie! You're making mo look so untidy Sho explained to him that she had loved him from tho first. Sho confessed why she had not told him she was Mrs. Seton -Carr at first: because who was a leader of Lon- don fashion, and she knew ho slat- ed London Society and everything connected therewith. Tho news- paper people chronicled her move- ments and she was much talked about; she had thought he would not fail to recognize her namo. Lt. would naturally be supposed that seeing how late it was they would have hurried home. Not they! It was nearly eight o'clock when they reached Ivy Cottage. Dick was waiting for them. "This is a pretty idea, upon my soul !" His greeting. "A nice way to treat your brother! Dinner has been waiting hours!" "Never mind, Dick dear," re- plied his sister. "It doesn't mat- ter, it really doesn't matter in the least." "Doesn't it! It matters to mo! Am I supposed to be a fasting man, giving a seaside exhibition of my- self'? You're flouncing around grinning all over your face as if you'd picked up sixpence. What have you been doiug?" "There—sit down—like a good boy. Now start and try to make up for lost One." Sho ran to her room and threw off her hat and mantle. Then who crept softly into Gracie's room; the child was not yet asleep, though sleepy. Bending over the cot she kissed the little rosy face, and Gracie's arms went up and around the neck of her "Dear Miss Miv- vins." Mrs. Seton -Carr had not been away from the dining room more than two minutes; when she returned to take her place at table mischevious Dick was waiting for her. said— "What I want to know is, what the deuce you two have been sit- ting out on that blessed seat all night for? Why couldn't you come in like rational beings and sit in chairs and talk?" "Never you mind, Dick; don't ask questions. Have some more 'soup ?" "Oh, you can't stop my mouth with soup! 1 expect it was some of that tommy-rot Prince Charlie was always flooding my ears with. About your eyes and hair and--" "Now, Dick," interrupted Mas- ters, "drop that please. It is a forbidden subject. •' "Is it I am not to talk about what you said?" He turned to his sister and continued; "What have you had to say then, Sir? Been telling him how you begged and prayed of Inc not to let him — "Dick 1 If you don't be quiet, I'I1 never forgive you!" "Now, look here." Dick assum- ed nn aggrieved tone. "Am 1 sup- posed not to talk at alit Is this house run on the silent system! I might just as well bo having dtn- nor in a deaf and dumb asylum." "Talk sensibly then," said his sister patronizingly, "and we'll lis- ten to you with pleasure." "We! Oh, it's reached that stage, has it: plural! 'M very well. Let's take up a serious sub- jo et : horribly serious. Have you unatics decided when your two throbbing hearts are going to bo 'Mangled into one; when you are to be married?" "Dick ! Don't you want—let me pars you Fonio more vegetables!" "Don't stoy his thirst for infor- mation," interposed Masters quiet- ly. -1Ie's got to be best man, et he may as well know. It is sett) that we arc to be married by special license on New Year's Day." "Oh, Prince Charlie!" she cried. "•1 never said—indeed I didn't—" No, dear," he replied calmly. "I know you did not. But you said that that woman I made love to on the boat; what was h t name l— Aniy--pass the sauce, Dicks -alleg- ed that I said it rested with me, so far as the naming of the clay was concerned." ' • !low can you "It occurred to me that that was a capital idea. I urn not one of tho'e superior persons; am never aboto taking a hint. By way of compensation 1 ani going—thanks -au you again- !A lee% c a most happy beginning of one." „ • Prince Charlie uttering the insoluble substances which sotilc aphorism. Then holding out, his will often buy ono; fair average p gspecimens fetch $75, $100, and a 'to the bottom of the bucket. hand to Mabel, he continued— few $150. The tier is, , ! Millions of these impurities are "You agree with me, don't you, g however y a high-priced aminal ; $300 •is the untouched by the strainer and go darling? Just by your action con- lowest figure at whi, h ho sells, with on their way rejoicing to carry ill vince this beardless youth that we $400 for the tigress. health and disease, maybe, to all are in accord about the first of A specialty of value is the Euro-' who drink the milk or use the but , - are January—if we, aro to bo married can I nz A young one cannot bo' ter made from it. We use tho milk on that day, put your hand in p y strainer because we do not like the mine." had for less than $100, and the full- "Thero's one thing about this af- grown animal is worth from $125 to refuse in ooks of athol bottom par kite, of f thet milk fair—havinglongbeen an acute $175. sufferer frm headstrongsis- WOLVES ARF. A WEAK MARKET! can or perhaps in the drinking cup. It does no harm to remote these, ter's temper," said Dick, grinning $10 is their average per head, $5 the t•ut gives us a sense of relief in all over hia face, "about which 1 minimum and $25 the top price. thinking that the milk is clean be- am distinctly displeased." Catch a fox young, and the cub may cause it leeks clean. We seem to You are going to make one of $7.50,only just• 5 ; have discharged a moral oblige - your z your terrible jokes, Dick!" she realize or $l.la, g 13 - said. "I can sco it in your face I" full grown, its value is $10. tion in using the strainer, forget - "Oh, lot him run loose," inter- change rarely does a polar bear ting that the real harm comes from posed Masters. "It's Christmas change hands at less than $150; but The dissolved materials, the filth other bear time, you know. What's the joke? A sea -lion on cosh$100.oncheaper. t Thobe er its nauseating solutiones into seating effect. cone algid carriiu If it's going to give us pain, out is good for 8103, a price due to the tho pure white fluid. with it—as the boy said to the den animal's destruction for bounty in' fist." the Rhone Valley. RAISE GRAPES ON THE FARM. "If you labor over one of your Hippopotami have no quotation warned his usual atrocious ister, x'1'11 throw you in some markets. When iu supply had own grapes any far n by andance careful sclecan e this prehistoric -looking beast is down and pu►nmol you black and worth from 83,000 to $3,750. t;le- tion of a Ecru good varieties, and bl"I!was merely going to observe,of " phants aro much rnoro widely dealt tie, vino afcareful terit is planted. lant.edand caroThe in. A young one may be purchased B said her brother, regardless of the for from $1 000 to $1,250. 'time that is required to take care threat, "that I was glad that at But most considered of wild ani-! of a few vines would not amount length you had found your mea- mala is the giraffe. Previous to to very much and would be worth ter!" nolo in the home and in rho life He had to howl for mercy before 1898 it was impossible to buy ono of t•ho family than the inconveni- for less than $5,000; in 1903-•t the she let him up. price had shrunk to $1,50, which once it would be. did not repay the cost of imports There is plenty of time between CHAPTER RXRVI. tion. The actual market value of sun and sun for all the caro neces- Gracie had to be reckoned with. a young giraffe in good condition eery to be bestowed on trop and Prince Charlie was looked on as may now be quoted at anywhere Vino, besides what is necessary for her exclusive property. Consider- from $2,500 to $3,000. the farn►work, if farmers would able, diplomacy and tact would haveonly try the experiment. Plant to be brought to bear; that exact- AS TO THE MONKEY MARKET, trues and vines on the farm. There ing atom of humanity needed care- the chimpanzee varies a good deal is solid enjoyment and inspiration ful handling. in price, a young ono in condition in caring for them and in seeing Gracie gave up all rights in fetching from $250 to 8350. Other them grow and bear fruit, and there Prince Charlie. Indeed, viewed big apes are nioro expensive, al is solid educational help and stimu- his changing into the character of though at times there goes begging his in devoting a small part, of the a now papa with curious equani- a good chance, as in the Suez time to them, to say nothing of the tnity. Curious, that is to Fay, to market,- where a young orang-out great advantage to the entire any ono ignorant of her knowledge ang, almost full grown, was on of- household of having abundance of of the doings of fairies. The liter- fer at $40 recently—a real bargain. fine apples, pears and grapes to attire upon which she fed wits of Barbary apes, of tho kind which enrich the too often monotonous tho divided syllable typo. A story still inhabit Gibraltar stock, sell faro of meat and potatoes. without a fairy in it was beneath at $15 to $:3. Bombay and South -i Farms can bo made more attrac- her contempt. West China monkeys are not held tive and productive of comfort and So it was that on Christmas of much account; $5 will buy one. satisfaction by cultivating a vari- morning she viewed the matter Baboons cost inure --generally from ety of the best kind of fruit, and complacently. Having disposed of Prince Charlie to her mother, sho gave himMiss Mivvins as a Christ- mas box. Borrowed his fountain pen and in a largo round band Polar Bears Always Maintain TIIF. STRAIN Ell. Their Price. Straining Milk does not purify it. Wild animals fromthe Uissh 'alilking should be done with such Zoological Gardena in Egypt, tie- attention given to cleanliness that livered during the years bJJ-1908 it would bo unnecessary to use the at London, Marseilles, Hamburg, strainer. TLis utensil is of value and Rotterdam, re+ulize.d the, fol- chiefly because it removes the vis - lowing prices, iblo iudicatiori3 of impurity in milk, The "king of beasts," the lion,1 not because it really has any puri- so:d comparatively cheap, mainly fying effects. Small particles of because the cost of (owing made manure, hairs, pieces of dead c uti buyers shy of the investment. line clo frontthe cow's adder and body, wild born diene realized trona 433;5 and dirt from the milker's hands to 10500 `find their way into the milk pail Menagerie -born animals cost on during the first manipulation of tho an average $5C. A lioness has even udder, these impurities are churned sold for under $20; while, on the around in the pail by the force of other hand, $1,200 to $1,500 is not the streams as the Milk is drawn, too big a price to ask for an exccp- and by tho time the pail is full this timothy find specimen of lion. i filth is all but dissolved, and no Pumas—occasionally described as strainer yet produced can remove lions—are not in such demand; $25 anything but the coarse; and more wrote— "With best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." Putting this into Miss Miv- vins' hand, she gracefully led that lady to her former prince; was re- joiced when she saw how glad ho was to accept her gift! And the wish was realized too: their Christmas was of tho merri- est. Gracie said she had never spent so happy a one in all the years of her life; was of opinion that the harlequin had been at work with Uncle Diek ; he, was so different from what he used to be. Uncle Dick was, and he know it. Looked back at his past with eyes full of horror, at lila prospective brother-in-law with love in them, because he felt, knew, to whom his reformation was due. Gracie's other wish was granted: the new year was n happy ono. It commenced with the actual trans- fornlntion of Prince Charlie into Gracie'snew papa. The child said she had never made a change which pleased her so much. As Gracie wisely observed, it was not now a matter of occasional calls, he was always there. So much better, wasn't it ? She real- ly thought they had all boon quite foolish not to think of arranging tt FO before. .•'As to Uncle Dick ---well, as •(iracie said, he was changed. And it was a permanent change, too; he feared no relapse. Just some- timea the memory of the old evil times would return, and a suspici- ous moisture come into his eyes. He could not help thinking of what might have been, and what was. Thanked God from his heart for the present condition. As to Miss Mivvins--well, of course ahs no longer exists. She merged into Mrs. Masters on the first day of the new year. Another change which had firacie's full approval. THE END. Kicking ceases to help when it becomes a habit. $10 to $100, according to the apeci- he who plants a few good trees now mon. i will enjoy them during his own life- _ 41•••••••••••61 1time, and his children will be grate- ful to him for them after he has The salt tax in China yields a D99 sod on W iiia reward. ' revenue of nearly $10,000,000 a year. "My youngest boy,3 years old, was sick with fever last June, and when he got better the doctor prescribed Scott's Emulsion, and he liked it so well that he drank it out of the bottle, and is now just as plump and strong as any child of his age any- where ... two bottles fixed him O K."—Mit JOHN F. TEDDER, Box 263, Teague. Free.ltone Co., Texas. SCOTT'S EMULSION is the greatest help for babies and young children there is. 1t just fits their need; it just suits their delicate, sensitive natures; they thrive on it. Just a little docs them so much good and saves you so much worry. You owc it to them and yourself to make them as strong and healthy as possible. Sco•rr's EMULSION will help you better than anything else; but be sure to get Sco'rn's. It's the best, and there are so many worthless imitations. AIX. DRUGGISTS Ur. T.4 -1.r E.s fort wrllb. m.nntAer Lt:.r Omit Eb brct\er 1a low's oAlldr.n. let u...•„.1 you Me nt mation on the. sobJect. P,,,, e.rd.aealo.l• tn, t11* roper. 1. susat.al SCOTT & Bows& 125 Wellies** St., W. T.t1r•st LIVE STOCK NOTES. Sheep feel the effects of cold, and the average farmer must bo converted in the caro of sheep be- fore ho can make a success of win- ter lambs. The spring cow rapidly increas- es the fat content of her tnilk, be- ginning about five months after calving; the summer cow starts in about the third month, while the fall cow maintains fairly even qua- lity throughout lactation, seldom improving it more than five -tenths per cent. Ewes tlirt are nursing Iambs re- quire to bo well fed in order that they may have an abundance of milk for their lambs. flood wheatdreadful conditions. Kith hearts capable of trans ,erring armies bran mixed with warm water, produced annually or the 150 miles P 1 ground oats or boiled whole oats rent with what they had discover of tiling and ditches, some of which through the air as anything of the aro all good feed for milk. In every, cid they returned to the United had been draining the marsh lands kind that can possibly be imagined. ehcephotise a place should he made! States and spread their knowledge of forty years ago. Such invasion scares have a ten - wherever opportunity permitted. a new in - Thus they succeeded in enlisting er in the world," Rankin says, "They ray I'm the biggest farm- dens), to recur whenever tendon seems to threaten Britain praetieal sympathy, which has been "and I guess it's true. Lots of insularity. The advent of the steam - Woman's Restoration League. The they use it for cattle ranges only. our forefathers to be n certain pro- purposo of this organization is to ,iliac is a (arra." sage of disaster in this direction. aid in bringing about the enactment Rankin never raises rattle or fur- Still more so the balloon! France of a special law to protect the lit-nishcs range. lfe buys the raw was then to England the bogey tle girls of India until they aro 16 steers from the plains and fattens ih t Germany is supposed to o from child marriage. them until worth twice what he now, and when it became ktfee Great, Britain in its treaty with pays for the ''feeders," as they are to us that our neighbors across the India agreed never to interfere called. Ile never sells corn be. Channel—the balloon bad its oii- with the customs of the Hindu cause by fecdimg it to cattle, ac- gin of course in France ---had aetu- people. No change in laws can cording to a minute calculation •of ally succeeded in navigating the therefore bo made until India peti- his own, he gets more ample re• air, our anger and alarm knew tions that such laws be passed. The turns. It is forty miles from the no bounds. We were quite certain Indo -American Woman's Restore- nearest to the most distant of his in our own minds, that it was only tion League is working earnestly to farms. a question of time before our tut - organize the sentiment of the most Mr. Rankin is Beoteh-irish. Ile ditional enemy dropped down upon thoughtful and advanced men of was born in Indiana, in rural pov- us in force from the sky. tho Indian race thus to petition erty. He made his start. trading Even France, loo, was credited Great Britain. a colt for calves and raising the with having become oheFrel nitli Mace pride and tho conviction latter into steers. To day he own; the idea, just es Germany is jocu- that child marriages are causing an implement factory, a municipal larly believed to be at present. the deterioration of the Indian water system, a telephone rem- Only then it was not a Zeppelin taco may cause a chane. The eta- pany, a bank and other enterpris- airship or a Wright flying -machine tus of woman in India is so low es in addition to his farm. When that was to be employed, hut an that aitch a change must be made the notion takes him he adds $50,- "aerostatic globe," designed by no for other reasons than pity for 000 or so to the endowment of Tar- less a personage than the renowned helpless childhood. The movement kio College, a Presbyterian school Marshal Ney. In this, French is one that must be kept distinot in his home town which has known soldiers were to bo prejectr;d across from missionary work, for the Hin- his generosity to the extent of the Stssits of 1)n'cr fifty at • du would not co-operate In fly ei. ,260,000. time.-1'earsou's \feeler`. The New IIAIMLER Extracts from a few of the letters rece'vr d by the Daiml3r Co. bearing out the claims made for the 1903 engine. CHAS F3 MARTIN, ESQ. 12, 12, '03 ••I have never experienced such a delightful feeling as when gliding along silently and smoothly on the Net? Daimler.' THE RT. HON. LORD SIMON. 2t', 12, '03 6, She runs very quietly and smoothly, even on very bad roads, and she pulls beautifully up hill. It is a real pleasure to ride in her.' MONSIEUR GUMBOOT. 8, 1. '00 • I have noted that its chief qualities are its extraordinary flex— ibility, its absolute silence, and its !marvellous efficiency, in compar— ison with tappet valve engines. CHAS. HAY WALKER' ESQ. 20, 12. 'CO ' ,The way she crept along on her top speed at about 3 miles an hour was marvellous." The Daimler Motor Co., (1904) Ltd. COVENTRY, ENG LAN D. 'SOME TALES OF A S CIHLD WIVES Restoration League Striving to Al- ter a Cruel System. OF INDIA. fort which savored of interference with his religion. QUEER BREATHING \11,' 'ITS IN THE HOD Ilse Fens° of Smell and •11 -de %eloped tsar --- matt -like Te %Vilh 30,0011 'Teeth. If ono wishes to examine mail he should place the specin sa a piece of glass. The sna is a Fuld -bloused animal, and c tact with the warm hand proba m• d.,ces in him the feeling licit would result in tis fruiu place , the haul or body on top of the range. Tito coolness of the Ise will be agreeable to his sna -' p, and he will travel peaceably ag, rap dly expanding and contr 'g his broad sucker-iiko feet. His horns aro protruded inquiring wanner, aid if a is placed in front of him h probably walk on until thein crs come in contact with it. en the tentacles are withdrawn wavod about in the etlort to the obstruction more clearly, each feeler contains at its one small imperfect, but still disc+ ible, eye, which is capable of c'a- tiuguishing between light and dark- ness. A snail's manner of withdrawing his horns is very curious. He does nut pull them back bodily into their receptacle, but turns them inside out, just as ono turns the fingers of a glove in drawing it off back- ward. HAS WELL-DEVELOPED EAR. Tho funny littlb creature has a sor►so of smell, and also a fairly well-devoloped ear, which lies close to the roots of his horns. His breathing apparatus is of the simp- lest description. Looking carefully at his rignt s'do, ono may 500 that a distinct hole occasionally p pears there, re- mains open a few momenta and closes again. Thia is simply a cav- ity in the snail's body, into which he allows a certain quantity of air to enter, "whenever he thinks of it," as ono might say. When air has thus found its way into his interior, he keeps it t,l.pro until its oxygen is exhausted by his vital processes; what remains, laden with carbonic acid, is allowed to escape by re -opening the little trap-door, and the receptacle is filled by another supply of fresh air. 1 re an er rill el - z A BAW-LIKE TONGUE. Tho snail's mouth is armed with a saw -like tongue, which resenlblc:jr a long, narrow ribbon, coiled up in such a manner that only a part of it comes into use at once. Dis- tributed over the surface of this ribbon are tiny teeth, one animal's sometimes having as many as 30,- 000. As one set of teeth becomes worn away by leaf -cutting, another sec - In India a girl must be married tion of ribbon is uncoiled, and the BIGGEST FARM ON EARTH.teeth which before were wrapped before she reaches the ago of 12, or sho and often her whole family •- — up at the back of the mouth epee is ostracized and suffers under the Said to be David Realm's in Mis- forward to take their turn in prose- atxd regulatics marriages. loss of caste. Caste enforces rules souri -- He Guesses it's True. ing the food against the horny up- per surface of the mouth, and thus Nearly forty years ago an Illin- loathesomo, diseased, cruel and ut- cutting it in clean incisions. A man may be infirm, insane, cis farmer discovered that land on one side of a State lino was selling The shell of the snail is a horn tarty reprobate, says the National for $20 an acre while he might buycovering that serves to protect Congress of Mothers Magazine, yet any amount on the other side u him against his numerous foes. he can receive into his power the imaginary dividing mark for Slugs are simply snails that live a through marriage and deal with her less than a third that amount. (teal retired life, and consequently need as he will a little girl of any age estate men told the farmer that no no covering at all. Tho snail s under 12 of the caste relations be- railroad would evershell is built up from lime in the go near the 1) tale on which it feeds and the Missouri lands, but he sulci Ilia farm creatures are never found on soil in Illinois and bought all he could which produces no lime. twoen them aro according to the laws of that system. Accepting these sacrifices to be ct the land at $6 an Here. duty and suffering under caste Not long ago !)avid Rankin, who compulsion themselves, the parents is the man that bought the cheap pinoo and often even driveltheir acreage, took an inventory of his helpless little daughters into the possessions in the neighborhood of most cruel unions. Tarkio, Mo. The inventory showed Tho census of 1891 gives these 15,640 acres, 12,000 fattening hogs, 9.000 cattle, 800 horses, more than 100 cottages, in which the employees 259,760' females from 5 to 9 years of the big faun were housed, great y quantities of farm machinery and of age, 2,201,401 ; females from 10 the like. tc 14 years of age 6,010,759, and Tho total figures up to something these to men of all ages. like $4,000,000 in value, says Hnnrp- In 1901 two worsen travelled ton's Magazine. That didn't in - through India investigating these , elude the 1,000.000 bushels of corn returns of early marriages in Brit- ish India: Females under 4 years of age, ----4. INVASION BY AIRSiiiP. Ohl Scare That Began About Time of First Steamship. The vision which has recently been conjured up by certain pseudo- scientific alarmists of fleets of Gerdy man aeroplanes hovering over the Bank of England need not be taken too seriously. Aeroplanes as at present con- structed are merely large power - driven kites, and are about as in - where the lambs can come by them- selves and eat teed, such as wheat bran wet, and net be disturbed by the ewes -a small holo through the partition into n different room --the lambs iwll soon learn to occupy it when they want a piny spell, and to eat n little food, and in this way they will grow rapidly. I'ALKiNG POSTCARDS. Talking postcards have been spoken of for some time past. They have now become an nec•onlplished fact in Europe, though they are hardly likely to cane within reach of the million just yet. Happily they have not reached such perfec- tion that on coming down in the morning one's correspondence will hail one in various voices. It is ghastly to think of everybody's postcards shouting around the table. Bo far the phonographic message card can only be made to speak by taking it to a postal centre, where it is placed in a ma- chine which sets it in motion. f — A whale is capable of swimming twelve miles an hoar.